The new school year is slowly starting and the students are returning to their daily lives. While young children need textbooks, notebooks and stationery, older students will definitely like a laptop too. A portable device can be useful not only for taking notes at school, but also for work and, of course, games. However, choosing the right laptop is not easy at all, so we have prepared a list of tips for different purposes and price categories.
Asus TUF Gaming F15
Price: 16,990 CZK.
If you can make some concessions for a lower price, this model is for you. The F15 is powered by a 6-core Intel Core i5-11400H processor, a GeForce RTX 2050 graphics card with 4GB VRAM, 8GB DDR4 RAM, and a 512GB SSD. It’s the perfect machine for taking notes and playing back old or new games while reducing detail. The 15.6-inch IPS display also offers a high refresh rate of 144Hz.
At the same time, it is an entry point for technologies such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing in games, which provide more realistic lighting. You can also use DLSS technology, which allows you to upscale an image to a target resolution for better performance, but with similar, and sometimes even better, image quality. Tensor cores are used for this, but they can also be used for other tasks related to artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Asus Zenbook 14 OLED
Price: 25,884 CZK.
If you don’t care about graphics performance at all and only need a laptop for basic operations and content consumption, this might be the model for you. The Intel Core i5 1240P processor is complemented by integrated graphics, 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD. However, the advantage of the laptop is mainly its very light weight (1.39 kg), as well as a brilliant OLED display with a resolution of 2880×1800. It has much better contrast than classic IPS panels, and individual pixels can be completely turned off, so the black color on the screen is really black. For frequent viewers of movies and series, this is certainly a great advantage. The selected aspect ratio of 16:10 is ideal for work.
Asus TUF Gaming A15
Price: 26,990 CZK.
Now we will return to a little more complex, but still more powerful pieces. For the price of CZK 26,990, you can purchase the A15 model, which offers very modern components. It is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card with 6GB of VRAM. This is already a full-fledged gaming laptop, on which, in addition to studying, you can play the latest games.
Lenovo LOQ
Price: 24,990 CZK.
A similar laptop from Lenovo will cost you $2,000 less, but instead of Ryzen, it uses an Intel Core i5-13500H processor from Intel with 4 P-cores and 8 E-cores. However, you should expect a slightly higher consumption, and the laptop does not have a license for the Windows operating system, which will have to be purchased separately.
In any case, both models have all the advantages of Nvidia’s latest graphics cards. One of the main advantages is the generation of images within DLSS 3, which, at the expense of a slightly higher delay, will increase the frame rate by up to two times, which will significantly improve the smoothness of the image. In addition, latency growth can be suppressed using Nvidia’s Reflex technology.
Content creators will be pleased with the support for encoding using AV1, an open source codec that provides significantly better compression than the current standard in the form of H.264. This will save a lot of space on your disk and you will need a lower bitrate when streaming. Platforms like YouTube and Discord already support the AV1 codec for streaming.
MSI Katana 15
Price: 36,990 CZK.
If you combine content creation with gaming, the MSI Katana 15 is an ideal candidate. This model is equipped with an Intel Core i7-12650H processor with 6 P cores and 4 E cores, 16GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB SSD and Nvidia graphics card. GeForce RTX 4070 with 8GB VRAM.
Of course, gamers will once again be pleased with the 144Hz refresh rate, as well as the RGB gaming keyboard. In contrast, tech students are speeding up AI applications with a powerful graphics card. Content creators can use platforms such as Nvidia Broadcast to edit audio for streaming or create videos and podcasts, Nvidia Canvas to create realistic images using artificial intelligence, or Nvidia Omniverse, which accelerates the creation of 3D content.
MSI Vector GP77
Price: 49,990 CZK.
The same video card, but with different advantages, offers two slightly more expensive models. MSI’s Vector GP77 is powered by an Intel Core i7-13700H processor with 6 P cores and 8 E cores, which delivers significantly faster performance than Katana, especially in multi-core workloads. Plus, it offers 32GB of DDR5 RAM so you never have to worry about memory again. Even dozens of open tabs in Chrome won’t stop that kind of power. They will also be pleased with the higher resolution in the form of 1440p, and gamers will definitely appreciate the high refresh rate, namely 240 Hz.
Lenovo Legion Pro 5
Price: 55,989 CZK.
A slightly more expensive model from Lenovo offers even better processor performance. The Legion Pro 5 uses an Intel Core i9-13900HX processor with 8 P cores and 16 E cores, which is a really big upgrade over the i7. The rest of the specs are pretty much the same, but Lenovo also offers G-Sync support. A technology that can change the refresh rate based on the frame rate, resulting in a smoother image and preventing annoying tearing. The difference is the display, which is slightly smaller, but with a resolution of 2560×1600, that is, an aspect ratio of 16:10. This is especially suitable for various work applications, since you can expand the applications above.
Lenovo Legion Pro 7
Price: 95,277 CZK.
Don’t care about price and just want maximum performance? In this case, the choice is obvious. This model again offers Intel’s Core i9-13900HX processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 16-inch 2560×1600 240Hz IPS display. But the laptop has a 2TB SSD and basically an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card with 16GB of VRAM. This is by far the most powerful portable device you can buy. The RTX 4090 will provide fantastic gaming performance where you can play even the most demanding titles like path-traced Cyberpunk 2077, but the card is also great for content creation. For example, you will definitely appreciate the large amount of video memory for video editing.
Source :Indian TV
